[Octave-cvsupdate] SF.net SVN: octave:[10842] trunk/octave-forge/extra/fpl/NEWS

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Revision: 10842
          http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/octave/?rev=10842&view=rev
Author:   cdf
Date:     2012-08-08 12:33:12 +0000 (Wed, 08 Aug 2012)
Log Message:
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prepare for release (again)

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/octave-forge/extra/fpl/NEWS

Modified: trunk/octave-forge/extra/fpl/NEWS
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--- trunk/octave-forge/extra/fpl/NEWS	2012-08-08 12:20:17 UTC (rev 10841)
+++ trunk/octave-forge/extra/fpl/NEWS	2012-08-08 12:33:12 UTC (rev 10842)
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@
  * ASCII VTK Unstructured Grid (VTU) exporter has been speeded up via
    code vectorization
 
-* A new function to write raw binary VTU files has been added
+* A new function to write raw binary VTU files has been added.
+  A new function to write base64-encoded binary VTU files has been added
+  (requires Octave >= 3.7, will fall back to ASCII mode otherwise).
+  As a rule of thumbs, ascii files are about 50% larger than base64 which
+  are 30% larger than raw files. base64 files are faster to write (about 30% faster
+  than raw on my machine for large meshes), ASCII files are more portable.
 
-* A new function to write base64-encoded binary VTU files has been added
-  (requires Octave >= 3.7, will fall back to ASCII mode otherwise)
-
 * New functions to write ASCII structured grid VTK files have been added
 

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